EVELYN I didn't plan to let him know of my involvement early which is why I was surprised when he saw me outside. But it was all good. Early or not, it still didn't change the fact that I was now the lawyer.I'd received a call last night, saying that Mr Fulham, the man I was supposed to be under, had called in sick and he had asked that I take his place. At first, I couldn't believe what I was hearing because the chances of this happening at this point were so slim, but it had happened, and now, I was here. “Plaintiff, you say you have a witness in court today?”Even though I'd done this many times before, my heart was still beating in my chest as the judge called for me. But I didn't show it. “Yes, your Honor. I do.”I turned to the audience. “Sergeant Clay. Please step forward to the podium.”As the man walked up to the podium, I took that time to steal a glance at Javon. Based on what I'd heard and read, Javon should react.But even as he looked at the man until he got to the
GAIAThis was the first time I was going to be seeing the security footage. The way it was heavily guarded made me wonder what exactly it showed. As he pressed play on the remote, I removed my eyes from the screen and moved to Javon. He still didn't seem fazed, didn't seem like someone who was on trial for doing anything wrong. And it bothered me. As soon as his eyes met mine, I looked back at the screen. For the first few minutes, there was nothing there, and then I saw someone. It was just a figure, just a figure of a man walking into the building. They had got to be kidding me. How did they figure out that it was Javon just from this? I could barely even make out the race of the person because of how disturbed and distorted the video was.There was a storm and this person was covering their face with their jacket. His lawyer paused the video and turned back to Clay. “So, as we can see from that very short clip, we see nothing. It is pretty obvious that it's a man from the b
JAVON “Does that date have any significance to you?”I kept thinking about it as I rode in the car away from the court house. Was it supposed to? I'd tried speaking to her when we were done to ask her why she asked me such a question.“Gaia, please wait up.”Other lawyers were around her and I was skeptical that she might not answer me. They gave me weird looks as they walked away. “What is it, Javon? You know you shouldn't be speaking to me, I'm a lawyer. And not your lawyer.“Listen, I know. I just wanted to ask you something. Why did you ask me if the date meant anything to me?”She rolled her eyes and looked away. “What do you want to hear? I asked you because I needed to know what I would use to bring you down and of course, you didn't remember. What was I expecting? It never meant anything to you.”Before I could process her words, she walked away. What did she mean by the last sentence? Was it supposed to mean something to me?I couldn't get my mind off it.There was some
GAIAYou have got to be kidding me. How could this happen? How could I have taken his phone without knowing? I stood in my room that night wondering how the hell this could have happened. I knew it was when we bumped into each other but the chances of this ever happening were very slim. But it happened. And it was already really late. I have no idea if he has noticed yet because he was a busy person and he didn't have the time to look at his phone a lot. Another reason why I was panicking was because I'd used Juan's picture as my screensaver and the moment he sees that, he would want to know more. So I might as well just believe that he had seen it already. Gosh, why did I have to bump into him? The door opened, and Bella walked in. “Hey, you're back early. How was your day?”I let her come in and sit down before I started telling her anything. As soon as she was seated, I told her everything without leaving a single thing out..“Woah, that's a lot. But then, what's wrong with
GAIA There was a problem. I didn't know how exactly I was going to find out the truth. Also, I needed to get my phone back from Javon. I had called my phone and sure enough, he had picked it up immediately. He had seen the pictures on my phone and he wanted to meet up with me. I'd ask him to just drop the phone in the house or just mail it to me but he refused, saying that he wanted to speak to me about something. There was nothing to say to him. The kid wasn't his. After all, he had killed the only one that was. Regarding the court case, I was going to start with Sergeant Clay and speak to him. He’s the one who started everything so I would want to speak to him first. He was in a meeting right now, so I had to wait, and then my phone rang. Well, Javon's phone actually. “Hello? Who's this?” “Miss Everly, is this you?” My shoulders relaxed a little. “Yes, it is. Good day, Mr Quinten.” I heard him sigh heavily. “I’ve been trying to get to you until my se
GAIAI wanted to meet up with Javon in an open place but then the sight of seeing the opposing lawyer in a court case with the culprit wasn't exactly the way I wanted to start my career. So we ended up meeting in his car. “I just need my phone, Javon. That's all. There's nothing to speak to you about.”He brought the phone out and handed it to me. “Are you sure there isn't?”I brought out his phone and the screen lit up. It was a picture of me he had used as his screensaver. I didn't want to pay attention to it because I was sure he had done it on purpose. After all, he wanted to mess with my head. “There isn't, Javon. What do you want to hear? That he's yours? Don't be ridiculous.”“Then who's child is he, Gaia? Who? I know you didn't get remarried, I know you didn't cheat on me so who's child is he?”I hadn't planned out what to tell him because I didn't think he would be finding out this early so there was nothing to fear. “Javon, what if I say he's yours? What do you think wi
GAIAI did believe Javon. I was reasonable. Even though I hated him, I also hated injustice and lies and that was what I was seeing right now. He had been set up somehow and I was going to find out how. Time was running out. Right now, I have just six days left to find out the truth in time for the trial. And I was nowhere close to getting proof. “What are you going to wear?”I looked at Bella as she stood in the kitchen..“What are you talking about? Wear to where?”She stopped cooking and turned around to look at me. “Seriously? The gala is tonight!”Shit! The gala! How on earth could I have forgotten that? “It completely slipped my mind, Bella. I'm so screwed.”She walked away and stood at the bottom of the stairs. “Juan! Come down for breakfast!” Then she walked back to me. “You’re not screwed. There's still time. It's just eight am. I have a person for things like this, so I'll call the makeup artist and hairstylist to be here while we go shopping, and when we get back,
GAIABella had asked if Mr Quinten would be picking me up but I had no idea. I would have liked to think that, but we hadn't spoken about it earlier, so I had no idea. So I asked Evan to drive me there. It wasn't my first time attending a gala or a social event of this kind but I was nervous. My phone rang while I was in the car. It was Mr Quinten. “Where are you, Miss Everly?” ”Oh um, in my car on my way to the event. Are you there yet?”Was I late? I could have sworn that he said seven pm. “No, you're not late.” Did I say that out loud? “You’re just in the wrong car. I should be the one driving you to that event. How do you think it will look if we show up in different cars ?”It wasn't my fault he didn't say anything about picking me up. I felt like I was being scolded. “Where are you right now?”I looked outside the window. “We’re close to the venue, but not exactly there yet. Are you close?”“Tell your driver to stop. I'll make my way to you.”He ended the call before I c